My Name Is Earl

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DeAnn Welker: C | 1937 USERS: B-
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They Keep On Probing

Geraldo asks Joy if she has any idea who might have wanted Ernie gone, and she thinks anyone who might have found out about his hidden cameras in the women's bathroom. Geraldo wonders why she didn't mention this sooner, but Ernie had paid her off not to tell the other girls. That's why she always goes in the alley. Geraldo asks her to show him, but she doesn't really have to pee right now, so maybe he should buy her a beer first and she'll try. He actually wants her to show him the cameras, though. She says she will, but she still wants that beer. In the bathroom, Joy shows Geraldo all the hidden cameras, and there are many: three overheads, behind-the-mirror, and the pee-pee cam, which is inside the toilet bowl. Geraldo finds a VCR behind the tampon machine. Will the sick, perverted tape shed some light? First we see the other things that went on on the video: Drunk Randy stealing tampons and sanitary napkins. Catalina trying to hide her secret eating (a bucket of chicken). Patty's working lunch with several guys. Earl hiding in the bathroom after stealing a bottle of liquor. Even Geraldo putting on his game face in the mirror cam. He looks in the mirror and says, "Never show weakness. You're a rock star. You're Geraldo Rivera. This is what they pay you (he holds up a wad of bills). Because you're worth it." Someone's in the bathroom, so he pretends it's not really Geraldo.

They revisit an earlier interview with Darnell, who told them that every night at closing time, he had to go on the roof and take down the Central flag. Inside Probe re-enacts all of this with claymation-looking figures. That night, when he went up there, someone was trying to snatch the flag. Even though Darnell agreed with the guy, it was his job to protect Ernie's property, so he attacked him with lethal precision. The fight caused them to fall into the flag pole, which fell into a power line and caused a big, UFO-looking explosion that night. But what does this have to do with Ernie? On the bathroom cams, we get to see Ernie's final moments. He enters the bathroom with a new videotape. He's walking on skinny boards to avoid the wet cement, but is startled by the commotion on the roof. When the pole hits the power line, the power goes out, and Ernie loses his footing. He falls and sinks into the cement floor. Geraldo stands above his nose, which is still sticking out of the floor. Everyone watching in the Crab Shack gets up and runs to the bathroom, except Tim Stack, who steals everyone's money and food.

My Name Is Earl

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